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Haud yer weesht – in English it means shut your mouth or be quiet– is what Scots speakers have been told to do for centuries. Effectively, in the country of our birth, our language has been in almost permanent exile for more than four centuries. It has never been outlawed as such but it has been ridiculed, marginalised, dismissed and discounted as an uncouth and unsavoury expression of an uneducated populace: a relic of the past forming an antiquated barrier to the historic

Cuba and Venezuela: Breaking the Chains of Underdevelopment in Latin America, (co-author Rich Palser). London, 2005. ISBN . 0-954675-0-9...

The Young Guard: a revolutionary song for today's conditions The French revolutionary song The Young Guard is scarcely known in France,...

"The brutal muder of George Floyd was not an isolated incident or just another manifestation of systemic racism. It has revealed the key role of imperialism which itself is rooted in the development and expansion of class society. Calls to decolonise the national education curriculum and to promote more black people into the upper echelons of economic and political power are merely tinkering with a system that requires a radical re-organisation from top to bottom." Many peo

A poem I wrote 25 years ago about the tragedy of Africa's exploitation and underdevelopment. O diamond princes and oil black kings, O...

Some books that helped me understand history and move forwards. 1. Inside Hitler's Greece by Mark Mazower, Yale University Press 2. ...

Why it is not wrong to attack Israeli state “ A conspiracy theory - and certainly the Jewish conspiracy theory - is something quite different which seeks to ascribe social, political and scientific phenomena to a secretive, behind-the-scenes conspiracy of unknown forces with an unpublished or concealed agenda. ” Rebecca Long Bailey’s sacking for re-tweeting a comment by Maxine Peak is a logical next step in a process endorsed by Jeremy Corbyn himself in which anti-Zionis

In these times as we emerge from social isolation imposed by the lockdown it is more important than ever to recover the legacy of social...